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(0)Sean Patrick Adams
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A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War.
In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised...
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"Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States...authoritative." -The New England Quarterly
Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods...